Cadbury egg yolk orange sun

Smoke from the Pecos and/or Mora forest fires has turned the town orange.  We can still see pretty far, but the smell isn't as nice as the mesquite-fueled blazes that gave us 100 yard visibility in ABQ a few years ago.

This is my shocked face.

Victims want their guns back?  (via Instapundit)

Just like the completely failed experiments with European collectivism, there is no need to continue trying to achieve British-style gun control in the US.  But that won't stop the control freaks.

How do some people blog everyday?

Started driving to Kat & Pat's goat ranch at 8am yesterday to work some more on the 50'x20'(!) deck, and ended up having to make an emergency trip to ABQ to exchange a bad 4"x6"x16' beam (can't finish the deck w/o it).  What the heck, since we were there anyway I got to fix the swamp cooler on our rental house and we picked up 100 bails of hay in Bosque Farms.  Finally got home at 2:30am today.

It's hard to go a day w/o internet.

Anyway, I finally got around to reading TSM's latest uberpost on gun control.  His uberposts have to be scheduled, cuz I can't stop in the middle and they're big.  He also has great stuff on education (or lack thereof).

Disloyalty

Non-recess appointments.  "Well, they went home, didn't they?"
Gunwalker. <crickets>
Bengazi. "Move along now, nothing to see."
2nd Amendment (and 1st, 4th, 6th, 10th, and maybe 5th). "It's for the chiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiildren!"
IRS auditing political enemies. "Probably some rogue IRS agents."

AP wiretaps.  "OH NO HE DI'N'T!"

Now the lamestream media is paying attention?  You'd think the Obama administration would know better than to go after its own friends.

I will relish the memory of having started my blog during the Obama scandal tsunami.  Of course, it's really been over four years of rising floodwaters.

Now to bathe, shave, and make a trip to the DMV to get my CDL Class A license.  I'll take a book so as not to waste time.

Blogger advice: If you don't want to cause subliminally-induced depression in readers, try not to say "Obama", "IRS" and "DMV" in the same post.

WIN!
FREE!
SEX!

Feel better now?

On the first day god actually got writer's block...

... so I don't feel so bad.  Finally started my own blog.  At least I wasn't shamed into it like for Facebook (I love you, too, dear sister).  I would have done this yesterday to commemorate my daughter's 14th birthday and Aron and me passing our CDL driving tests, but late to bed, interrupted sleep, up early, driving, testing, driving, shopping, dinner, party, and catching up on my favorite blogs ended with OMG I'm tired.  Having missed the intended date, I might have continued procrastinating, except now I'd like to honor the 10th blogiversary of The Smallest Minority, one of my three favorite blogs.  The other two are Instapundit and View From The Porch.  Samizdata looks like it will enter the list.  You might guess that I'm a wee bit libertarian.  My parents invite me to parties anyway.